Word: markowitz
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...Philip Markowitz, also a second year law student, said the library is an important social center for students at the Law School...
...Carol L. Markowitz '93, who says she favors either Harkin or New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, who has not declared candidacy, says, "The Democrats shouldn't be wimpy. The Republicans play hardball. They're slimy but we're living in a slimy nation and the Democrats have to be slimy...
...notion that investors should diversify their portfolios seems self-evident now. But when Harry Markowitz first proposed a systematic way to implement that strategy, the financial community scoffed and no less an economist than Milton Friedman was skeptical. Said he: "Harry, what's this? It's not mathematics; it's not economics; it's not finance...
Last week, more than 35 years later, the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics to Markowitz, a professor at the Baruch College of the City University of New York, and two colleagues who built upon his work. Sharing the honor were William Sharpe of Stanford University and Merton Miller of the University of Chicago...
...Markowitz, 63, showed that investors fared best when they purchased a wide * range of stocks, bonds and other assets, because the risks in a diversified portfolio tended to offset one another. That insight made Markowitz the intellectual father of the mutual-fund industry. Sharpe, 56, demonstrated that the risks and rewards of holding an asset like stock are linked to its volatility in relation to the rest of the market. For example, highly volatile stocks are the biggest winners in bull markets but suffer the heaviest losses in downturns. Sharpe has cashed in on his insights, running an investment advisory...